Recent content by gunrunnerjohn

As others have suggested, for $10 for a new key from Stack Social, it's hard for me to justify spending much money on trying to get an old key working. Pro or Home are the same price, but I can't think of many reasons that you wouldn't just go for Pro. I've bought a couple keys from them...

The difficulty of finding a reliable venue to sell stuff like this is why it still sits in a drawer at my house. :lmao:

Since I had just done an image backup, I decided to give Diskmax a try. It removed 3.5GB of files, I was impressed. Now, if my machine starts crashing, I'll be less impressed, but so far everything seems fine. :unsure:

I don't have a particular bias against AMD, but I've used mostly Intel since my 8080 days, and I'm too old to change. :lmao:

You're solution is to junk the car because it got a flat tire! Hundreds if not thousands have used the update scripts without bricking the machine. Hell, if that was the benchmark, none of us would be using Windows or various other software packages! 🙄 You waltz in here like a bull in a china...

Well... I did a disk cleanup run, rebooted, and the issue resolved itself. Windows mysteries are everywhere! :lmao:

You can uninstall them from Device Manager, but you'd have to do them one at a time. Using Device Manager to uninstall devices and driver packages

I just tried a second computer here, no problems with that one. I thought it might be a recent update, but they both are running the same version of Windows.

I don't really want move as the default to other logical disks, I'd just like it to work the way it's supposed to work. :-) I can cut and paste a file with no problem, it's just the default drag-n-drop action that suddenly stopped working correctly. The only recent update is for Defender, hard...

I checked and those registry keys were not present, which should have forced the default action. Note that this was working fine a couple days ago, and I wasn't screwing around with the registry in any way since then. I did add the keys and set them to zero, but that didn't seem to change things.

I understand what hibernation does, but I really don't find myself in that situation. As for the drivers, I tried both the Studio drivers which I normally use, and then I tried the Game Ready drivers, both have the same problem. Since I dumped the Nvidia drivers and board, no more problems.

Suddenly, I notice that when I drag-n-drop a file between folders on the same logical disk. it has decided to create a shortcut instead of moving the file as intended. I checked and the DefaultDropEffect key was not present, so I can't imagine why it's suddenly misbehaving.

Anything that cleans "all" the junk files with one click is a dangerous program IMO! Not a chance I'd run that on my systems. 🤔👎

Hibernation took as long as booting from power off on my machine, so I didn't see the point of bothering with it. I figure at some point Nvidia will get it's act together and I'll stick the video card back in.

My computers range from DDR3 to DDR5 memory. For most of the work I do on them, there isn't much difference in visible performance.